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Time for School Series: Full Episode: Time for School 3

feltzr — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:00:32 +0000

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Once Upon a Coup: Full Episode

ernsta — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:22:34 +0000

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Eyes of the Storm: Full Episode

feltzr — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:50:57 +0000

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Contestant No. 2: Full Episode

feltzr — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:50:20 +0000

Duah Fares is an Arab-Israeli teenager and member of the Druze religion. When she sets her sights on the Miss Israel pageant, her tight-knit religious community balks. The pageant requires contestants to wear a bathing suit, an act that could disgrace her family and even put her in danger.

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The Market Maker: Full Episode

lauren feeney — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:03:12 +0000

WIDE ANGLE travels to East Africa to tell the dramatic story of an Ethiopian economist on a mission. Seeking a market-based solution to ending hunger in her famine-plagued country, she creates Ethiopia’s first commodities exchange. What she didn’t count on was a world financial crisis getting in the way.

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Birth of a Surgeon: Full Episode

feltzr — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:52:58 +0000

WIDE ANGLE travels to Mozambique, where a bold grassroots initiative to train midwives in advanced life-saving surgery has significantly reduced the country’s maternal death rate.

Birth of a Surgeon follows Emilia Cumbane, one of the first midwives-in-training. She performs Cesarean sections and hysterectomies in makeshift operating rooms in rural Mozambique. We follow Cumbane from her home in the Mozambican capital Maputo, into intensive medical classes, through night shifts in the delivery wards, and watch as she fights for recognition of her surgical competence.

Originally aired in 2008, for the episode’s 2009 encore presentation WIDE ANGLE host Aaron Brown meets with Cumbane to see how both she and the program are faring. Cumbane, now the head of the maternal ward, has a two-week-old baby herself, and Brown explores the successes and obstacles she has faced over the last year, as she has tried to juggle her personal and professional commitments, all the while working to help save women’s lives.

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Heart of Jenin: Video: Full Episode

ernsta — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:19:11 +0000

When 12-year-old Palestinian Ahmed Khatib was killed in the West Bank city of Jenin by Israeli soldiers who mistook his toy gun for the real thing, his death could have been just one more blip on the news. Instead, Ahmed’s parents’ decision to donate his organs turned tragedy into hope for six Israelis and created a rare moment of optimism amid the violence and entrenched hatred surrounding an intractable conflict.

In Heart of Jenin, WIDE ANGLE tells the story of Ahmed’s tragic death and his father Ismael Khatib’s journey to visit three of the organ recipients two years later.

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Crossing Heaven’s Border: Video: Full Episode

lauren feeney — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:15:25 +0000

In the past decade, up to 100,000 defectors have crossed the waters of the Tumen and Yalu Rivers into northeast China to escape from North Korea, the world’s last closed Communist state. In Crossing Heaven’s Border, WIDE ANGLE tells the moving and dramatic stories of a few of them.

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Raise the Last Glass: Video

feltzr — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:44:07 +0000

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Field Trip to the DMZ: Video

lauren feeney — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:20:28 +0000

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Pakistan at the Polls: Video: Vote for Benazir’s Blood

lauren feeney — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:39:31 +0000

Abida Hussain is a notoriously sharp-tongued politician with gray hair and a smoker’s raspy voice who is running for parliament in Punjab, Pakistan — against her own cousin. The two rivals come from a powerful landowning family that has controlled the region for generations, and both have held the office before. This time, her cousin is favored to win, but Hussain has hope — she’s signed on to the party of another famous dynastic politician, Benazir Bhutto. It’s just a few weeks after Bhutto was assassinated, and candidates associated with her party are expected to benefit from the sympathy vote.

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Pakistan at the Polls: Video: You Cannot Hide from Allah

lauren feeney — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:39:27 +0000

Meet the Michael Bloomberg of Pakistan.

Ishan Khan was just a regular guy, an immigrant working as a taxi driver in Washington, D.C. Then he hit the jackpot, winning more than $30 million in a lottery. Most people daydream about what they’d do if they won the lottery. For Khan, this decision would have real consequences. Khan decided to return to his hometown of Batagram, Pakistan, and run for mayor. Days later, an earthquake struck, killing 70,000 people, 4,500 of them in Batagram. Now, as mayor of this economically devastated town, Khan has to govern a constituency that seems to believe that his money can solve all of their problems.

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Underground Zimbabwe: Life Lines

lauren feeney — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:26:07 +0000

Once considered the “breadbasket of Africa,” Zimbabwe is now struggling to feed its population. It is estimated that nearly half of Zimbabwe’s 11 million people are teetering on the brink of starvation. Supplies of basic commodities such as flour, milk, cooking oil and water are running desperately low — and are increasingly impossible to afford. In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city, this has resulted in empty grocery store shelves — and a thriving, illegal black market. In Zimbabwe’s Life Lines, we witness the shortages of food and water firsthand and meet a young man who survives by working on the black market.

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Underground Zimbabwe: Demonstrating Under Dictatorship

lauren feeney — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:20:29 +0000

Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe has been widely considered a repressive political regime. With the government violently cracking down on voices of dissent, human rights activists are a rarity. But since its founding in 2003, one organization has succeeded in gathering more than 40,000 members who believe in the prospects of peaceful political change: Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA). In defiance of repressive laws curtailing public gatherings, this women’s empowerment movement stages non-violent street protests to agitate for bread-and-butter issues. In Demonstrating Under Dictatorship, we march with the women of WOZA in a public demonstration and hear their harrowing testimonies of being beaten by police in jail.

Last October, subsequent to Robyn Kriel’s filming, WOZA leaders Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu were arrested at a protest and charged with disturbing the peace. They may remain in custody until their trial date on February 26, 2009.